Establishing the provenance of Torres Strait Islander remains: genetics, craniometrics and isotopes

确定托雷斯海峡岛民遗骸的来源：遗传学、颅骨测量学和同位素

• 批准号: LP140100387
• 负责人: A/Prof Michael Westaway
• 金额: $ 52.18万
• 依托单位: Griffith University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-06-29 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP140100387
• 关键词: Establishing; provenance; Torres; Strait; Islander

The repatriation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remains has been a focus of Commonwealth and State Governments for over two decades. It remains as a significant social and cultural issue for many Indigenous Australians. One of the main hurdles to repatriation is the fact that hundreds, and possibly thousands of human remains have very little contextual detail associated with them. A number of techniques have been developed in the field of biological anthropology to reconstruct the history of individual skeletal remains. This innovative project aims to use advances in the fields of ancient DNA, isotope analysis and craniometrics to resolve the provenance of 113 trophy skulls from the Torres Strait Islands.

20多年来，土著和托雷斯海峡岛民遗骸的遣返一直是联邦和各州政府的一个重点。对于许多澳大利亚土著来说，这仍然是一个重要的社会和文化问题。遣返的主要障碍之一是，数百甚至数千具人类遗骸几乎没有相关的背景细节。生物人类学领域已经发展了许多技术来重建个体骨骼遗骸的历史。这个创新的项目旨在利用古代DNA、同位素分析和颅骨测量学领域的先进技术来解决托雷斯海峡群岛113个战利品头骨的来源问题。